Chateau - Castle for Sale in Le Haut Fourneau, Availles-Sur-Seiche, Brittany, France

Spectacular Historic Chateau on 23 Acres

The estate is located in Brittany, France,five miles from La Guerche de Bretagne (right), a town of 5,000 inhabitants with all amenities and shopping at your disposal. The nearest airport is 30 miles away in the univesity town of Rennes. The nearest train station is 20 miles away in Laval, where you can reach Paris by TGV in 1 hour and 40 minutes.
From the main road, a 1.6 mile path lined with apple and pine trees leads to the iron gates and the parking of the chateau.

This historic country estate with a well-balanced architectural façade has nine bedrooms, chapel, garage, stable, and caretaker’s chalet. It is located in a park-like setting of 23 acres with meadows, garden, two ponds, two large streams, and access to hunting and fishing. For use as a family estate, or can be converted to corporate offices, a bed-and-breakfast, or a first-class restaurant.

The first floor is approximately 3,300 sq. ft. with a living room and dining room, both with original parquet floors and fireplaces with beautifully carved mantles. Kitchen has wood stove, gas stove, refridgertor, washing machine, and marble fireplace. Game room and gallery have Italian ceramic floor. There is also a powder room, a hunting room with red tile flooring and huge mediaval stone fireplace, and an interior tower with curved stairway.

The second floor is approx. 3950 sq ft. It includes two master bedrooms with full baths. The bishops’s bedroom has a framed interior window with view of the chapel below. The second floor gallery (471 sq.ft.) with Italian ceramic floor leads to one full bath with Italian ceramic floor and six additional bedrooms, about 192 sq ft each, three of which have a lavatory enclosure and the other two have a lavatory and bidet. The rear section of the seconf floor was added in the early 1930s.

The chapel, which is dedicated to St. Flacre, the gardener’s saint, is a prolongation of the south wing. The chapel floor is large black and white stone, very old and in perfect condition. Walls are 30 feet high with an arched wood frame ceiling. The altar is sculptured stone flanked by two full size statues and behind it is an original stained glass dating from the 15th century. The West Wing (2668 sq. ft.) had two car garage, coach room, and stable.